Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Boards constitute the central instrument of the self-supporting scientific evaluation of the Max Planck Society. For very basic reasons such monitoring of standards is essential to the Max Planck Society: externally to justify the funds with which it is entrusted and on which there have always been ceilings; internally, to enlarge the scope and competence of the various administrative organs of the Max Planck Society so they may decide on essential aspects of their own development, both in the individual Institutes and overall.
Prof. Dr. Meigan C. Aronson
Dean of The University of British Columbia, Faculty of Science, British Columbia, Canada
Prof. Dr. J. Paul Attfield
The University of Edinburgh, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Peter G. Bruce (Chair)
University of Oxford, Department of Materials, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Steven De Feyter
KU Leuven, Molecular Imaging and Photonics, Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Supratik Guha
The University of Chicago, Pritzker Molecular Engineering, Chicago, USA
Prof. Dr. Martin P. Head-Gordon
University of California, College of Chemistry, Berkeley, USA
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Janek
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Gießen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, Evanston, IL, USA
Prof. Dr. Maki Kawai
National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
Prof. Dr. Nai Phuan Ong
Princeton University, Department of Physics, Princeton, NJ, USA
Prof. Dr. Subir Sachdev
Harvard University, Department of Physics, Cambridge, MA, USA
Prof. Dr. Jörg Schmalian
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Prof. Dr. Gustavo E. Scuseria
Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston, TX, USA
Prof. Dr. Ram Seshadri
University of California, Materials Research Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Prof. Dr. Herre S. J. van der Zant
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft, The Netherlands